The number of international patent filings for innovations using cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence have surged eightfold in six years, the UN said Wednesday, the majority from China-based innovators.
WIPO highlighted that GenAI patents had increased eightfold since 2017, when the deep neural network architecture behind large language models that have become synonymous with AI was first introduced.“This is a booming area,“ WIPO’s patent analytics manager Christopher Harrison told reporters in Geneva.
That was six times more than the United States, in second place on 6,276. South Korea came in third, on 4,155, followed by Japan on 3,409. IBM only shows up in fifth place, followed by Alibaba of China, Samsung Electronics of South Korea, and Google’s parent company Alphabet, with Chinese company ByteDance and Microsoft taking the final spots on the top 10 list, the WIPO report showed.
He acknowledged the fears surrounding the technology, including the potential for massive job losses, disrupt industries and flout intellectual property protections.